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I recently made a rig for about 700-800. And to save some cash I am using a HDTV as a screen. I recommend a AMD quad, a 6950 graphics card, at least 8 GBs of RAM and try to get one of the latest motherboards so if you ever decide to upgrade your computer in the future it will be easier.

I am sure people will say to get other parts, but that is what has been working for me and I enjoy it.

For $1000 these day you can expect to get a Intel quad (at least was the i5 2400, but now the 34XX) plus at least a GTX 560 Ti 448/HD 7850. All depends on if someone wants a SSD, type of motherboard, if they need a OS and so on.

Duke if you can drop the ram down to a lower speed like 1333mhz. Anything higher doesnt make the difference so it's not worth the cost. 8gb will be good enough too. You can use the extra funds to get a 7950 instead. They can be had for 370 on newegg but I would go for the 400 ones like gigabyte for a better HS.

Well guy is a idiot. Never heard of that before. Probably put the voltage to high and clocked it 1.5GHz lol.

I haven't heard of anything getting seriously hot, outside of real hardware failure and ill-advised overclocking, since something like the 90nm era. 7-series? before they went to the more modern, shrouded dual-slot coolers?

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